1.0.0 • Published 9 years ago
diff-a-json v1.0.0
Diff a JSON
Will fetch, sort (by key), and diff JSON data from 2 given sources (local file or API request).
As default, before comparing the data, each object will be sorted to depth=infinity in order to get the most accurate comparison possible.
Examples
diffajson somedata.json http://example.com/json-api-request?a=1 --sidebyside
diffajson ~/path/to/somedata.json http://example.com/json-api-request?a=1 \
--savelocal --sidebyside --saveas diff.diff
diffajson http://example.com/json-api-request?a=1 http://example.com/json-api-request?a=2 \
--savelocal --saveonlyInstall
npm install -g diffajson
Arguments
| name | description |
|---|---|
| --nosort | disables sorting the json object before diff |
| --savelocal | will save the fetched json files locally as left-timestamp.json and right-timestamp.json |
| --saveonly | will not run actual diff, to be used in conjunction with --savelocal |
| --sidebyside | will return the diff in a side-by-side view |
| --saveas filename | will save the diff instead of outputting it |
Caveats and Workarounds
Authentication (except for Basic Auth) is not currently built-in. Hint: to fetch a file from a source with cookie-based Authentication, do the following:
curl -XPOST https://example.com/auth/signin --data "user=username&password=userpassword" -c cookies
curl http://example.com/json-api-request -b cookies >> data.json1.0.0
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